Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. SkySQL

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

SkySQL

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon RDS	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.	N/A
SkySQL	N/A	N/A	SkySQL, or MariaDB Cloud, is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from MariaDB, that brings capabilities in the MariaDB Platform to the cloud, combining enterprise features and support. The vendor describes it as built for mission-critical applications and enterprise governance, and state that SkySQL augments automation with the human expertise needed to support and manage mission-critical deployments in the cloud – whether it’s a single development database or thousands of production databases.	$0.45 per hour

Pricing

Amazon RDS

SkySQL

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: $0.24 ($0.48)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MariaDB: $0.25 ($0.50)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MySQL: $0.29 ($0.58)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for Oracle: $0.482 ($0.964)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server: $1.02 ($1.52)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Sky-4x15 - General Purpose: $0.450
per hour
Sky-4x26 - High Memory: $0.630
per hour
Sky-8x30 - General Purpose: $0.900
per hour
Sky-8x52 - High Memory: $1.270
per hour
Sky-16x60 - General Purpose: $1.810
per hour
Sky-16x104 - High Memory: $2.530
per hour
Sky-32x120 - General Purpose: $3.610
per hour
Sky-32x208 - High Memory: $5.070
per hour
Sky-64x240 - General Purpose: $7.202
per hour
Sky-64x416 - High Memory: $10.14
per hour

Pricing Offerings
Amazon RDS	SkySQL
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon RDS	SkySQL
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon RDS In my experience, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is way cheaper than SkySQL Incentivized Helpful?	SkySQL No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	SkySQL
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)